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Study Reveals How Some Corals ‘Walk’ Across the Sea Floor
The mushroom corals tended to move toward the blue light. Science explains that since blue light wavelengths penetrate deeper ...
‘Walking’ coral moves like jellyfish toward blue light, new study finds
Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...
The New York Times13 天
These Corals Are Made for Walking
“And they are adorable.” Using time-lapse cameras and an aquarium that blocked out all other light, Dr. Lewis recently put inch-long mushroom corals through an experiment. ‘Periodic pulses ...
ScienceAlert24 年
This 'Walking' Coral Moves Around, And We Finally Know How
When you imagine a coral, it's probably not walking around. In fact, by most accounts, corals are sessile, meaning they are fixed to the surface of their habitat, often the reef built from the bones ...
CNN4 天
‘Walking’ coral moves like jellyfish toward blue light, new study finds
cyclolites specimens off the coast of Cairns, Australia, before transporting them to an aquarium at ... the waves and the reef’s natural slope combine, the mushroom corals are gradually pushed ...